We've made some pretty extensive changes to the Felymyst encounter. To facilitate testing of this encounter over the weekend on the PTRs, we are going to have Brutallus kill himself when he enters combat. Kalecgos is also still disabled on PTR at this time.

Nalorakk and Mother Shahraz will no longer haste their attacks following a parry. A hotfix is being applied this evening to live realms. These encounters had been set up to not haste after parry for some time, but there was a bug in the implementation which we have identified.

The fix should be up soon.

We are once again looking for fan-submitted questions to answer in future episodes of BlizzCast. It can be anything related to Blizzard, the company, our games, or the talented people that work here. We do have a Qamp;A session in the soon-to-be-released episode 2 where we cover a bit of Starcraft lore and several World of Warcraft game play questions. Keep an eye on the BlizzCast home page (http://us.blizzard.com/blizzcas...

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The PTRs will be taken down today at 10:45 AM PST to update to a new build. We expect the downtime to be four to six hours. (5pm PST).


Thank you for your patience.

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Hortus
Blizzard QA
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The PTR Realms are now live.

I wanted to give everyone a head's up that we'll be disabling the Sunwell Raid zone on the PTR until we our next PTR patch (which will be very soon!).

We're applying a hotfix right now that will accomplish this.

The testing on the PTR has been excellent and we greatly appreciate all of the hard work you guys are doing. You're going to help us to make the zone great!

Kalecgos is close enough that we can finish off testing him internally at this point. Brutallus will get a minor change next patch (stomp removes burn). We'll do brief testing on him next patch and then disable him. Felmyst and the Eredar Twins both get major changes next patch. The oh-so-compelling, non-boss mobs also get a good deal of tuning in the next patch.

Thanks again and we'll see the Sunwell Raiding folks in a day or two!

Sunwell Raid should be re-enabled in the latest build.

The World Event Team has activated the revamped Midsummer Fire Festival on the PTR. The primary focus of the PTR testing is still on the content of the Isle of Quel'Danas, but if you could spare some testing time to review the holiday, we'd greatly appreciate it!

You can visit any capital city -- including Shattrath -- to begin most quests involving the holiday.

Some focus points for feedback:

• The boss fight (similar to the Headless Horseman) located in the Slave Pens of Coilfang ...
  
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We wanted to give everyone a head's up that we'll be disabling the Sunwell Raid zone on the PTR until we our next PTR patch (which will be very soon!).

We're applying a hotfix right now that will accomplish this.

The testing on the PTR has been excellent and we greatly appreciate all of the hard work you guys are doing. You're going to help us to make the zone great!

Kalecgos is close enough that we can finish off testing him internally at this point. Brutallus will get a minor change next patch (stomp removes burn). We'll do brief testing on him next patch and then disable him. Felmyst and the Eredar Twins both get major changes next patch. The oh-so-compelling, non-boss mobs also get a good deal of tuning in the next patch.

Thanks again and we'll see the Sunwell Raiding folks in a day or two!

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